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Blatter and Platini charged by Swiss court over payment: Attorney General
Hospitalised at the beginning of the year, 85-year-old Sepp Blatter is expected to be allowed to spend a limited amount of time in court.
Sepp Blatter was forced to stand down as FIFA president in 2015 and was banned by FIFA for eight years, later reduced to six, over ethics breaches for authorising what prosecutors termed a 'disloyal payment'.
Fifa’s Ethics Committee banned Sepp Blatter from ‘all football activities’ in 2015 after finding him guilty of unethical conduct.
The 83-year-old former president was suspended from Fifa in 2015 amid a gigantic corruption scandal that rocked world football to its core.
Der Spiegel said leaked emails showed Infantino, who replaced Blatter, was behind changes to the ethics code.
Sepp Blatter, who led Fifa for 17 years, is serving a six-year ban from “all football activities” for unethical conduct after Fifa was rocked by a global corruption scandal in 2015.
The Frenchman was banned from all soccer-related activities over a two million Swiss francs ($2.02 million) payment Fifa made to him in 2011.
Sepp Blatter’s comment on Twitter followed a series of confusing incidents involving the Video Assistant Referee system which is being trialled in Italy’s Serie A.
Morocco is bidding for the fifth time to host the World Cup, having also tried for the 1994, 1998, 2006 and 2010 tournaments.
The 81-year-old Swiss was handed a six-year ban for ethics violations, imposed amid the biggest corruption scandal to shake world soccer’s governing body in 2015.
The US soccer star accused ex-Fifa President Blatter of grabbing her buttocks during an awards ceremony five years ago.
Timeline of scandals and corruption investigations at the global football governing body Fifa.
A statement by Blazer's two lawyers did not provide details or the circumstances of his death.
Sepp Blatter is currently serving a six-year ban from all soccer-related duties after a corruption scandal at the Zurich-based body.
Sepp Blatter was banned for six years by Fifa’s own ethics committee at the height of a scandal engulfing world soccer’s governing body in 2015.
Sepp Blatter has said he had met lawyers from the US Justice Department but was not a suspect in their corruption investigations.
The ex-Boca Juniors, Napoli and Barcelona forward, 56, was a harsh critic of disgraced former Fifa president Sepp Blatter.
Blatter, 80, lost his Court of Arbitration (CAS) appeal on Monday against a six-year ban for ethics violations.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday maintained a six-year ban from soccer for former FIFA president Sepp Blatter amid corruption allegations, a spokesman for Blatter said.